Browsing all posts in January, 2010.
Metallica in Peru
Metallica played in Peru this past week and sold 50,000+ tickets. They are another band in the line of 80′s & 90′s rock and roll bands that have gone to this rock&roll loving South-American crowd. I’ve written often about the ability for bands in the USA to sell massive numbers of tickets to audiences outside [...]
The Do It Yourself Artist
Are artists really making it by doing things themselves? Is time spent online building a fan base taking away from creating music? Will this lead to a new music industry to support the online presence of artists while they do what they do best – create music? Read more here from Digital Music Review: http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/stories/011910silverman [...]
Album & Movie Sales after the Apple Tablet
Read what Jerry del Colliano has to say about album sales and movie sales: http://insidemusicmedia.blogspot.com/2010/01/how-music-industry-is-about-to-change.html I was very interested to read what Jerry had to say about the potential game-changing aspects of the upcoming Apple Tablet. Could it really take out Blockbuster and Netflix? And can Warner and other companies really be helping this trend [...]
UK Album Sales Report
UK Album Sales report… http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/stories/011110uk
Jay-Z Leak
Check out this story from Digital Music News. Some of Jay-Z’s tracks leaked from Timbaland’s camp. Timbaland puts friendship before fighting words. That’s cool – they’ve been quite the music duo: http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/stories/011010timbaland Watch this video to see the two of them working together. Pretty inspiring to see Jay-Z just go in and rap like that [...]
